Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration officials who wanted to switch to an anti-inflation policy-CEA Chairman Charles Schultze, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Council on Wage and Price Stability Director Barry Bosworth-got a powerful ally in G. William Miller, who took over as Chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board in March. Miller, a liberal businessman, was shocked by the runaway inflation he encountered and publicly urged the President to declare it the primary peril. More support came from, of all people, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Says one Administration policymaker: "When Marshall starts arguing for wage-price guidelines, which would fall...
Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller frets that the load is too heavy. So does his predecessor, Arthur Burns. Says he: "Consumers are going into debt at a reckless rate. They are counting on good luck. Let there be some weakness in the economy, and they'll be in trouble...
...They are like people coming out of a dream, blinking in the light," says Playwright Arthur Miller of the artists, film makers and writers he has been interviewing in China. The author of Death of a Salesman spent a month gathering material for a book, Chinese Encounters, a joint venture with his photographer wife Inge Morath. "I found them remote and totally cut off," Miller said of his subjects. Until the government's recent liberalizing trend, they were "sequestered on farms feeding pigs." Although none of the Chinese Miller met knew of his work, there were some recollections...
...violated federal laws while searching for members of the radical, bomb-throwing Weatherman group in the early 1970s. Agents had burglarized the revolutionaries' homes, tapped their phones without warrants and monitored their mail. Gray and two former top assistants, Deputy Director W. Mark Felt and Intelligence Chief Edward Miller, had earlier been charged with violating citizens' civil rights. But it was up to Webster to decide whether to discipline the 68 members of FBI Squad 47, which operated from 1970 to 1975 in New York City, where most of the anti-Weatherman illegalities had occurred...
Triple Jump: 1--King (H) 22 ft. 11 in.; 2--Mahoney (H) 44 ft. 10 3/4 in.; 3--Miller...